Apple witnessed a 28 percent year-over-year growth in Mac
sales to 3.76 million units while iPhone sales grew 113 percent to 18.65
million units during the quarter. Apple's newest booming business sector, the
iPad, had sales of 4.69 million units.

If there was a lone cloud in Apple's sunny report, it was
the fact that iPod sales were down 17 percent to 9.02 million units compared to
last year.

“With quarterly revenue growth of 83 percent and profit
growth of 95 percent, we’re firing on all cylinders,” said Apple CEO Steve
Jobs. “We will continue to innovate on all fronts throughout the remainder of
the year.”

The number of people on tech sites saying that they can't wait for Xooms, rooting Nooks, excusing away serious issues with non-Nexus handsets that are only alleviated by rooting and lots of tweaking, or extolling the virtues of a $600 notebook over a $1200+ Mac or Lenovo tells me otherwise.

I buy from pretty much all of the major tech companies (Microsoft, Sony, HP, NEC, all the stuff that went into my gaming PC), and the fact of the matter is that Apple does certain things really really well. The idea that all people who buy Apple products are braindead zealots that didn't consider superior alternatives (which in some categories do not even exist) is arrogant and ridiculous.